<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Mark Hutchinson <<a href="mailto:markhsa@gmail.com">markhsa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Sunday, February 19, 2012, Raymond Wagner wrote:<br>
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>> On 2/19/2012 16:52, Mark Hutchinson wrote:<br>
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>> > Which players have open max support? So if a person uses an hdpvr to<br>
>> > capture all content as I do, would myth frontend work well then?<br>
>> > With which decoder?<br>
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>> As explained, no. MythTV does not support OpenMAX.<br>
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> I hope this gets developed. The amount of 100+ watt frontends replaced by a<br>
> 3 watt machine would save serious $ overall. Standardized hardware like the<br>
> pi could be just the ticket. One optimized download for myth frontend on<br>
> known hardware. Massive advantages.<br>
> I would view this as a critical move forward.<br>
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</div></div>As I think Raymond was explaining, it is not just playback that is<br>
needed. Myth themes use up a heap of ram. Ram is cheap on x86/amd64<br>
machines, not so on Raspberry Pi etc.<br>
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I think therefore that R pi is unlikely to make a good frontend if you<br>
want to run mythfrontend.<br>
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It may work well as a uPnP or xbmc based frontend, in the same way as<br>
a WD Live or Popcornhour and other STB's can be used as a front end.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>OK. So if XBMC can do it, my can't Myth? Are the themes that much more intensive and such?</div><div>Not being sarcastic at all, I just really don't know. I am not a coder. I am just really interested in saving power and optimized software for standardized hardware is always a good match I would think? Just a possible opportunity.</div>
<div>I know it would take off huge if people could get a $25 or so fronted for myth. Maybe this is not the device, but you will see major acceptance of this device I suspect for many projects. </div><div><br></div><div>
dd an image onto a flash drive for RPi and off to the races. It would be huge.</div>